Word: swill
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...Amour heroes like Tell don't chew, swear, swill redeye or hang around dance halls, and they don't go with girls who do. Horseplay and gunplay are surprisingly infrequent. The Sacketts are courtly coffee drinkers who never draw first and fight only when their bedrock belief in the perfectability of mankind has been violated. They hardly rate...
...husband, some years after a messy divorce: the exwife, dressed to kill, encases her maddened curiosity in a ladylike frost. She notices things brutally, and repeats them when she gets home. Mrs. Frances Trollope reported back to England in 1832 that Americans gorge their food with "voracious rapidity"; they swill, guzzle, spit and pick their teeth with pocket knives. In Cincinnati, she related, cows are nonchalantly milked at the house door (a predecessor, no doubt, of the great American custom of home delivery), and pigs enjoy such citizenship that they wander at will, rooting in the street garbage and nuzzling...
...dozens of Harvard clubs, alumni will swill...
...then in a vision from above, I learned of Pinocchio's. It stood on the horizon, that nectareous nirvana of 'za, and it cloned into Pinocchio's Two. I said, "Nuke Tommy's Lunch; nuke Elsie's; and most of all, nuke the Rendevous. No more swill from our Eliot House grill...
...Another swill of beer brought some more bile up. Just that evening he was waiting for the Watertown Square bus after work, sitting on an ancient bench in the urine-soaked subway when some freak hauling a queer knap-sack pushed his waist-length hair back behind his shoulders and began arguing with his chum about "perceptions of reality...